From lojban-out@lojban.org Thu Dec 01 21:36:01 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 71102 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2005 05:36:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.167) by m32.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 Dec 2005 05:36:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Dec 2005 05:36:01 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1Ei3RE-0001Oc-Go for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:26:28 -0800 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Ei3QE-0001Mb-Az; Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:25:28 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:25:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1Ei3Pw-0001MO-Cd for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:25:08 -0800 Received: from dsl081-049-216.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.49.216] helo=pinfu.digitalkingdom.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.54) id 1Ei3Fi-0001AE-Cs for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:14:38 -0800 Received: from h-66-134-26-207.nycmny83.covad.net ([66.134.26.207] helo=pi.meson.org) by pinfu.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ehy7P-0005oi-6t for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:45:39 -0800 Received: (qmail 19999 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2005 21:57:14 -0000 Received: from nagas.meson.org (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (1000@192.168.1.101) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 1 Dec 2005 21:57:14 -0000 Message-ID: <438F71BA.9000507@kli.org> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:57:14 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20051201201215.GT18294@chain.digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20051201201215.GT18294@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 10821 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mark@kli.org X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 X-eGroups-From: "Mark E. Shoulson" From: "Mark E. Shoulson" Reply-To: mark@kli.org Subject: [lojban] Re: "point"? X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790; y=pi_T878PoJNiNgsL2Hxccqvk21ljFOHmKJMb-jAQVsHubsz5XA X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 25215 This is for Zendo, isn't it? :) Something with farna? X te farna Y probably, with the unfilled space being the "pointing direction". With people it might want tanruing with degji or something. Robin Lee Powell wrote: >I've noticed a lack in Lojban of a word for "pointing" in the most >general sense. Or, in fact, in many of its more specific sense. > >What I'm looking for is the concept that underlies the following: > > Bob is pointing at Brenda > > Page 27 references the book Accelerando > > This is more srana. This is a very different kind of pointing. I might almost go with "te tavla", as it's a sort of subject matter. > That stick is pointing at that tree > > lojban.org links to Nick's Lojban pages > > This is different yet again. Maybe even something with lasna? ~mark To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.